We decorated for Christmas this weekend…it’s always interesting (and a bit frustrating) decorating for anything with preschoolers, toddlers, and babies…but (in hindsight) it really is more fun with kids. HaHa!!!
We have a new addition this year…a little Christmas tree in our play room. Tom bought some shatterproof ornaments, I strung them with sparkly ribbon, and the boys had a BLAST decorating the tree all on their own.
It ended up just being Jonas in the end…he sorted the ornaments by color and texture (that’s my son…haha) and clustered them all together. The perfectionist in me, who motherhood has been chiseling away at for the past four years, had passing thoughts of rearranging them BUT decided against it. I’m trying to learn how to let things go and let other people’s perfect (including that of my children) be perfect. I asked Jonas if he wanted to pick out a few handmade blankets from our closet to wrap around the bottom of the tree, and he went directly to his room and brought back one of his favorite “cozes” (that he used to sleep with as a baby and now uses as a “cape” when he’s playing). It made me think of Linus and A Charlie Brown Christmas and about made me pucker up and cry. What a sweet boy…he ended up choosing two blankets that Aunt Teresa made for Xander and him to grace the bottom of the tree. And it looks beautiful!!!
